Ziwi Peak: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Ziwi Peak is made by FountainVest Partners, founded 2002 — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (1 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 18 Ziwi Peak foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 18 Ziwi Peak foods in our corpus
The scorecard
WSAVA-aligned criteria
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's nutrition guidelines suggest four questions to ask any pet food maker before you buy. Most "best dog food" sites skip straight to ingredient vibes and star ratings — we publish the actual answers instead, each sourced, or marked honestly undisclosed when we can't confirm it.
1 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 1 confirmed no · 2 undisclosed. Undisclosed is common, especially for smaller brands — it means we couldn't confirm an answer from a public source, not that the answer is unfavorable.
No fetched page names an individual with a board-certified veterinary-nutrition credential or PhD in animal nutrition; null per rule.
ZIWI built and operates its own NZ$85m production kitchen (largest pet-food factory in NZ) at Awatoto, Napier.
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 36 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.
A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.
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These four checks come from WSAVA's global nutrition guidelines for evaluating a pet food manufacturer — not our own opinion score. Read our full methodology →
The company
Who makes Ziwi Peak
Ownership and history, each sourced independently — private-label and co-packed brands often hide the actual manufacturer behind the name on the bag.
Parent company
FountainVest Partners
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ZIWI was acquired by Chinese private-equity firm FountainVest Partners in September 2021.
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Founded
2002
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Founded 2002 by Peter Mitchell.
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Headquarters
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
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Founding/registered base is Mount Maunganui; primary manufacturing since moved to Awatoto, Napier.
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The safety record
FDA recall history
Joined from the FDA's own Animal & Veterinary recall feed (2019–present) plus curated pre-2019 records — the same live-checked feed as our full recall database, filtered to Ziwi Peak.
Join of data/recalls.json (FDA Animal & Veterinary recall feed, 2019-present) + data/recalls_historical.json. This is NOT a complete lifetime recall history; recalls predating 2019 (or absent from the FDA datatable) are not represented unless curated in recalls_historical.json.
The corpus
What we've verified from Ziwi Peak's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
18
0 dog · 18 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 18 (0%)
Formulated to meet
0
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
43%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Ziwi Peak we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.